Google Wanted To Buy Spotify, But Internal Fighting Stopped Ithttp://www.businessinsider.com/google-wanted-to-buy-spotify-but-internal-fighting-stopped-it-2010-12/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:18:56 -0400Matt Rosoffhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d0cad524bd7c8b01e010000Jon RobertsonSat, 18 Dec 2010 07:47:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d0cad524bd7c8b01e010000
Larry & Sergey basically run Google, Eric is just great to talk to the press...
... but he has little know-how about the search industry, at least not as much as he should.
I found the book <a href="http://amzn.to/aDVJWi">'Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain</a> is a real eye opener about Google. Perfect for GOOG investors and anybody interested in Google!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08fef6cadcbbc104080000DumbledoreWed, 15 Dec 2010 12:46:29 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08fef6cadcbbc104080000
Yeah because Android and chrome are such huge failures. Who the f*ck writes this garbage. Google is run by 3 people at the top , of course you will not always have a consensus on what projects need to be focused on. If Google really wanted to purchase a music service, theres still plenty of them on the table. Google is on a major spending spree, and I still don't see why if they really wanted to purchase either of those companies they still could.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08f0cc4bd7c8a378060000modelportfolio2003Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:46:04 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08f0cc4bd7c8a378060000
Ever hear of creative tension? Works wonders in many organizations. Seems that Google doing all the right amount of due diligence before an acquisition is made.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08ee9049e2ae3855040000Tim F.Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:36:32 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4d08ee9049e2ae3855040000
"Instead of having a strong dictatorial leader like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates sign off on every product decision, the company is organized in a collection of interdependent teams."
You are describing the organizational structure of these competitors very poorly. When it comes to significant projects, not part-time hobbies, Apple has, by far, the smallest, most nimble, and most independent teams. There are entire major apps written by 1 person, much of the early OS X work was done by fewer than 5 people, much of WebKit was done by 1 person and later expanded to a small team of around 5, rather than go on hiring sprees Apple will shift OS X developers to iOS, etc...
Now, what they are working on may come down from on high and they may need final approval from one man, true, but even worse is the situation at Google where unless it is a Larry and Sergei pet project and you get to do whatever you want, you have to go through a litany of proposals, reviews by committee, judgement by algorithmic matrices, etc, etc, etc...
So, as you conclude, Google is very much like Microsoft. There are lots of small, useless independent projects in Microsoft pursuing things counter to their business strategy that will never see the light of day as well. Bill Gates may have had final approval years ago, but his decisions were truly the mouthpiece speaking for the committees of MBAs and project managers.
A wasted article, people have been observing the lack of organization and internal strife at Google for years already: the interesting point would be to ask if, despite the clear direction regarding an acquisition, does Google still have three independent music teams working on completely different ideas.